{"product_id":"alfredo-jaar","title":"Alfredo Jaar","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003e“It is difficult \/ to get the news \/ from poems \/ yet men die miserably every day \/ for lack \/ of what is found there”.\u003c\/em\u003e —William Carlos Williams\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eAlfredo Jaar approaches \u003cstrong\u003ecritical aspects of the postcolonial world\u003c\/strong\u003e in order to state our society's institutionalized indifference towards events such as genocides, famines, marginalization, military conflicts and political corruption all over the world, as well as art's incapability in facing them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eAlfredo Jaar\u003c\/strong\u003e 's exhibition \"It is difficult\" is accompanied by the book \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/corraini.com\/en\/alfredo-jaar.html\"\u003eIt is difficult Vol.1\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e , special publication featuring a rich photographic documentation most of which previously unpublished from the artist's archive, and the catalog \u003cem\u003eIt is difficult Vol.2\u003c\/em\u003e , available in English and Italian featuring texts by \u003cstrong\u003ePaolo Fabbri\u003c\/strong\u003e , \u003cstrong\u003ePaul Gilroy\u003c\/strong\u003e , \u003cstrong\u003eBartolomeo Pietromarchi\u003c\/strong\u003e , \u003cstrong\u003eGabi Scardi\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eNicole Schweizer\u003c\/strong\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eIn these books, the contrasts between industrialized and developing nations, the rhetoric of the media, and the process of removing such themes from our collective conscience are analyzed by \u003cstrong\u003eminutely documenting the complex reality of a situation in situ\u003c\/strong\u003e , and focusing the attention of the public on the possible relationships between ethics and aesthetics and the key-role of art in criticizing the way in which such serious events are treated in our society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eThis book is also available in\u003c\/em\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/corraini.com\/en\/alfredo-jaar-vol-2-eng.html\"\u003eEnglish\u003c\/a\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"corraini-shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53629358276938,"sku":"L57","price":35.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/8652\/3978\/files\/it-is-difficult_vol.2_35f12793-e160-4d7c-9466-418eaddaab38.png?v=1768325840","url":"https:\/\/corraini.com\/en\/products\/alfredo-jaar","provider":"corraini-shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}